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Top Russian rocket scientist dies from ‘mushroom poisoning’
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#172Url changed from https://ptv-news.com.pk/top-russian-rocket-scientist-dies-fr..., which seems to be shameless blogspam so we've banned the site. Thanks to the user who figured this out!
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In Finland it’s pretty common to go mushroom hunting. Between 1969-2006 eight people died because of mushroom poisoning. Three of them died 20-30 years after the initial poisoning due to kidney transplant issues. So at least here it’s not very common to get killed by mushrooms even though many people enjoy foraging.
And to add: in spring time many Finns pick a deadly poisonous mushroom (Gyromitra esculenta) and boil it 2x5min to remove the poison and cook it as a delicassy after that. Never heard anyone get poisoned by it.
The internet recommends boiling outside to avoid poisonous vapors.
It must taste incredible.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, if I understand your point and link: this is not something that actually happened, it's just a joke, but after enough retellings for some reason people think that it is real.
> after enough retellings for some reason people think that it is real I do not think anyone thinks it's real; you might be getting caught up by the word "story", just some dark Balkan humor.
I expected it to be real.
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#175This is not really suspicious. I regularly went foraging for shrooms in Ukraine with my gram gram, but I was not allowed to pick anything, of course. It requires expertise. In that part of the world, this is very common, and so are the cases of people poisoning themselves because they think they are good at it. If you can't relate - think of all the "gun people" who think they are experts on gun safety and then they…
I'm just curious -- what types of mushrooms did you collect?
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#176> Professor Vitaly Melnikov, 77, had headed the Department of Rocket and Space Systems at RSC Energia Was that department responsible for the Luna-25 lander/impactor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia_(corporation)#Deep_Spa... doesn't say explicitly.
Highly unlikely. Luna 25 was build by Lavochkin Bureau.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/470005/open-letter-to-noam-chom...
I don't think he is apologist in sense that he is justifying Russia's actions, but his point is that Russia is too large force for Ukraine to fight without receiving devastating damage, and in his view Ukraine should've considered negotiating peace deal and give up some territories.
No his point, that Russian fears of NATO is legitimate, is bollocks. He seems to see everywhere American Imperialism, and think in this frame.
Russian government did not give a damn about NATO expansion, it is a mafia with no ideology. They would have invaded anyway, under some other false pretense.
Keep in mind that Chomsky denied genocide made Khmer Rouge in 1970 and genocide in Srebrenica, _just_ _because_ _perpetrators_ _seemed _to_be_ against US imperialism.
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#180The comments threads for this post are insane.
People, stop posting stuff that make me laugh because I am sitting at the ER with my son and people are looking at me funny.
I could obviously skip the comments and read about the next JS framework but where wild be the pleasure in life then.